Under its Evidence-based Practice Program, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is developing scientific information for other agencies and organizations on which to base clinical guidelines, performance measures, and other quality improvement tools. Contractor institutions review all relevant scientific literature on assigned clinical care topics and produce evidence reports a...

Clinical laboratory consultants (M.D.s and Ph.D.s) must add value and medical relevance to the healthcare system to earn and maintain their roles in an era of managed care. Service opportunities include new and expanded roles in system-wide (a) managing of point-of-care testing, (b) informatics and information systems, (c) clinical consultation, (d) resource management, (e) management of utiliz...

embedding health technology assessment (hta) in a fair process has great potential to capture societal values relevant to public reimbursement decisions on health technologies. however, the development of such processes for priority setting has largely been theoretical. in this paper, we provide further practical lead ways on how these processes can be implemented. we first present the misconce...

This paper examines the issues relating to self-assessment, such as the different types of self-assessment, its uses, and its validity. It also reviews the literature (largely from developed countries) that informs our knowledge of self-assessment. The paper makes recommendations for future research and concludes that while much remains to be done to assure that self-assessment has the impact i...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of patients are treated with warfarin worldwide, and many are monitored in general practice, often with office instruments. Bleeding or thromboembolic episodes may be consequences of inadequate treatment. We have therefore examined some important aspects of general practitioners' (GPs') knowledge of warfarin treatment. METHODS A questionnaire including 2 case h...

BACKGROUND Clinical governance (CG) is an approach to quality improvement in healthcare aimed at achieving a patient-centered health care system. The main objective of this study was to highlight human centered healthcare latent factors underlying the results of a CG assessment performed in the teaching hospital "A. Gemelli" of Rome, Italy. MATERIALS AND METHODS CG implementation levels were ...

introduction: methodologically correct assessment of patient satisfaction (ps) plays a crucial role for quality-improvement purposes. evaluation of iranian literature on emergency department’s ps resulted in an emerging need for developing a new instrument with satisfactory psychometric properties. the present study, aimed to develop and initially validate a scale to measure ps in emergency dep...

Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Briggs A H, Gray A M. Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Health Technology Assessment 1999; 3(2): 1-134 Authors' objectives 1. To perform a...

The hearing healthcare scenario is rapidly evolving due to the pervasive use of m-Health solutions, in particular mobile apps. This brings along significant advantages and opportunities (e.g., accessibility, affordability, personalized healthcare, patient empowerment) as well as significant potential risks and threats (e.g., safety, misuse, quality issues, privacy). Our research aims at the ide...